With help from Tony Romm, Michelle Quinn, Brooks Boliek, Eliza Krigman and David Saleh Rauf

ICANN TRIES TO OVERCOME MISSTEPS -- Michelle Quinn has the story: “The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers is struggling to overcome technical glitches and criticism about the early steps it took with its Internet domain name expansion program. ICANN won a reprieve last week when the Commerce Department announced it would leave key technical Internet duties in the nonprofit’s hands for several more years. But the organization still faces pressure to perform from the Internet community and foreign governments.” More for Pros: http://politico.pro/LEmwuz

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TODAY: FCC OVERSIGHT HEARING — The FCC’s progress on incentive auctions will likely top the agenda today at the House E&C communications and tech panel’s FCC oversight hearing, which features all five FCC commissioners. “The top issue is going to be spectrum,” Rep. Lee Terry told MT. “You will see a lot of questions on that.” Rep. Greg Walden also told MT that spectrum is high up on his list. And it’s not just the Republicans. “I’d like to begin by addressing the implementation of incentive auctions,” Rep. Anna Eshoo plans to say at the outset of the hearing, according to her prepared remarks. Most Hill insiders expect a “free for all” at the hearing. Other issues on the table include: USF reform, special access, process reform and Internet governance.

Good Tuesday morning and welcome to Morning Tech, where it turns out Twitter is pretty good at linguistics. Hoping to better understand the “soda” vs. “pop” vs. “coke” debate, data scientist Edwin Chen turned to Twitter for some data points — and his results are pretty consistent with actual linguistic data on the topic, The Atlantic Wire reports: http://yhoo.it/MSR4bJ. By the way, it’s called “soda,” people.

MOBILE PAYMENTS HEARING — The Senate banking committee takes its second look at mobile payment tech today, part of its series of hearings on the regulatory systems that govern the emerging wallets and other tools.

Expect Michael Katz, a top economics professor at UC Berkeley, to talk about security and privacy. "Consumer surveys reveal that many consumers question the security of mobile payments, and indeed mobile payment systems do have points of vulnerability, such as the radio interface, that card-based systems do not," he notes in prepared testimony. "Consumer surveys reveal that many consumers worry that mobile payment companies will collect too much personal information and that that information will be misused."

Thomas P. Brown, adjunct professor at Berkeley Law School and partner at Paul Hastings LLP, will note that confusing federal regulations are made more difficult to comply with because of a patchwork of state rules. "Most efforts to protect consumer privacy interests simply make it more costly for firms to collect information from consumers and to share that information with other firms," he will note on that issue. "But information sharing is not a concern per se, and the focus on sharing tends to distract attention from the problems that give rise to the concern about sharing in the first place — the misuse of sensitive information and the failure to take care against the exposure of sensitive information to malicious third-parties." And offering similar thoughts will be Sarah Jane Hughes, a top professor at Maurer School of Law at the University of Indiana. She will note the threats of data interception and remark on the fact that considerably more PII may land in the hands of merchants.

KIMMELMAN HEADED FOR HUMAN RIGHTS FIRM — Pro Tech reported yesterday that Gene Kimmelman — one of the Justice Department's most important antitrust officials — is leaving the agency in the next few weeks. Turns out that Kimmelman is headed to work in the D.C. offices of a London-based human rights firm called Global Partners and Associates. He's stepping down from his position as DOJ's chief counsel for competition policy and intergovernmental relations after roughly three years with the agency — a period in which he played influential roles in the approval of Comcast's purchase of NBC Universal and the rejection of AT&T's bid for T-Mobile.

"Gene really had consumer interest and consumer welfare as almost part of his DNA," Sharis Pozen, the former acting Antitrust Division chief, told MT. "To have him as part of our antitrust team was critical to ensuring those consumer interest were at the forefront of every decision we made."

Kimmelman's latest gig will add another notch to an impressive career that began roughly 30 years ago when he was a staff attorney for Public Citizen's Congress Watch. He also spent almost a decade as a legislative director for Consumer Federation of America and later served as a top lobbyist for Consumers Union until taking the job with DOJ in April 2009.

WIRELESS SURVEILLANCE FINDINGS PIQUE HILL -- Members of Congress working on the issue weren't happy after learning wireless carriers received more than 1 million law enforcement requests for customer data last year — a statistic revealed as a result of an inquiry by Rep. Ed Markey.

Rep. Bob Goodlatte told MT he's "closely reviewing the report," and reiterated his belief that "the government should have probable cause and a warrant before it can track a citizen’s location using GPS devices." Goodlatte is already a sponsor of a bill that would mandate that — the Geolocational Privacy and Surveillance Act — and pledged to work with its sponsor, Rep. Jason Chaffetz, to move it. (However, the House Judiciary Committee doesn't have any plans to take it up right now.) The sponsor of the companion Senate bill, Sen. Ron Wyden, was just as concerned. "Our bipartisan group has written legislation that gives law enforcement, private companies and the public clear rules of the road when it comes to accessing private location data by instituting rules similar to those governing warrants for wire taps," he said. "Reports like these will help people understand why this legislation is so necessary for both the public and for law enforcement."

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HOUSE JUDICIARY MARKUP — The committee is scheduled to mark up several bills today, including measures to combat child pornography and boost IP protection work in the Commerce Department, as well as a bill on the intellectual property attaché program. http://1.usa.gov/M50ReU

BUT WILL THE IP ATTACHE BILL GET MARKED UP TODAY? — That’s not entirely clear. For now, it doesn't seem like the bill has been introduced. One Hill aide told us there are new disagreements between House Judiciary Dems and Republicans, as a few items from the original version of the proposal that Dems liked aren't in the new text available on the panel's website. Nevertheless, Judiciary could still unveil the measure in time for today's markup. But with many other bills on tap, it's highly unlikely they'll get to it. We're tracking.

LANGEVIN DISCUSSES CYBER WITH EU LEADERS -- Rep. Jim Langevin today is scheduled to participate in the Transatlantic Group on Counter Terrorism Summit, which aims to build a stronger working relationship between European and American legislators to address mutual security issues. Langevin will discuss the existing state of cybersecurity policy and current legislative efforts to strengthen the defenses of key networks. The summit kicks off at 3 p.m. in room H-122 of the Capitol.

THE FCC LANDS A BIG FISH FOR THE CAF POND — Frontier Communications’ decision to tap the Connect America Fund for $71.9 million is beginning to make the FCC’s bet on reforming the USF fund look like a good one. The money is made available through the changes the commission made to the program.

Frontier’s decision helps answer one of the questions raised by the reforms: With the requirements that come with accepting the money, would any show up for the party?

FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski applauded the company for “stepping up to the plate with its commitment to accelerate broadband build-out by increasing private investment in rural communities in partnership with the Connect America Fund.”

SPEAKING OF USF REFORM — Comments on reforming the program’s contribution side are beginning to come in, with USTelecom suggesting that the program funding needs to come from general revenues. The trade association “specifically recommends that the commission request federal legislation that would use general revenues to fund its low-income programs, whether those programs apply only to voice or to voice and broadband service.” http://politico.pro/LZcYIC

Comptel doesn’t go that far, but it wants the commission to “expand the pool of services and providers” that pay into the fund so the contribution base includes “enterprise communications services, text messaging services, one-way VoIP services and broadband Internet access services.” http://bit.ly/MdTodB

And American Cable Association President and CEO Matthew Polka warned that “failure to develop an accurate and efficient cost model runs the risk of not funding homes that need support.” Cable operators are concerned that the fund will be used to provide broadband services in areas where they already exist. http://politico.pro/NfCclF

FCC DEPARTURES — Michael McKenzie will be leaving the FCC at the end of July. Since joining the commission in 2010, McKenzie served as deputy chief of the FCC’s Wireless Telecommunications and International Bureaus. In addition, he served as a staffer for the FCC’s Technology Advisory Council and as a member of the Innovation Cohort at the White House. His “expertise in technology and communications has been a vital asset to the commission over the past two years,” FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski said.

GROWING TWITTER RANKS -- Twitter's second public policy hire, Sinead McSweeney, started this week. McSweeney, based in Ireland, is Twitter's director of public policy for Europe. Check out her feed here: http://twitter.com/sineadmcsweeney

POSSIBLE HOUSE JUDICIARY HEARING ON ONLINE SALES TAX — Retail leaders are hoping that the House Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing before the August recess on the online sales tax issue. The Washington Post reported that the committee will hold a hearing on July 24, but a spokeswoman for the committee declined to confirm the hearing date or topic.

ALSO ON TAP TODAY: WEITZNER ON FEDERAL INTERNET POLICYMAKING --The Hudson Institute hosts Daniel Weitzner, deputy chief technology officer in charge of Internet policy at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, in a discussion on federal Internet policymaking and how it compares to other approaches to regulatory policy. The discussion will be moderated by Hudson Institute Senior Fellow Harold Furchtgott-Roth. More info: http://bit.ly/8FfoT

DATA ACT DEMO DAY — Microsoft, Teradata and other members of the Data Transparency Coalition present live demonstrations that aim to show the potential of the Digital Accountability and Transparency Act to enhance federal transparency and help prevent waste, fraud and abuse. It starts at 10 a.m. at Microsoft’s Innovation and Policy Center. More info: http://bit.ly/LLdCsY

BROADBAND AND ECONOMIC RECOVERY EVENT -- New York Law School’s Advanced Communications Law & Policy Institute hosts “Can Broadband Power an Economic Recovery?” The event will examine the array of issues and questions facing federal policymakers as they determine whether and how to respond to developments throughout the broadband ecosystem. Speakers include American Enterprise Institute’s Kevin Hassett, Technology Policy Institute’s Scott Wallsten, Georgetown University’s Anna-Maria Kovacs and others. Full list of participants here: http://bit.ly/s1hYHe

TONIGHT: PRO TRIVIA -- The next installment of POLITICO Pro’s trivia night is tonight at 6 p.m. and will be hosted by Patrick Gavin and our own Tony Romm. Pro subscribers can RSVP with their teams of four to awilliams@politico.com.

SPEED READ, by David Saleh Rauf

GOOGLE AIMS TO SETTLE WITH FTC ON APPLE CASE: Google is nearing a deal to pay $22.5 million to settle charges brought by the FTC that it used a special computer code to trick Apple's Safari Web-browsing software into letting it monitor users that had blocked such tracking, the WSJ reports. http://on.wsj.com/OsULQH

DOJ STILL SCRUTINIZING SPECTRUMCO: Reuters reports the FCC is prepared to give Verizon’s SpectrumCo deal the green light, but DOJ’s antitrust folks still need some convincing that it won’t jack up prices for consumers. http://reut.rs/NFlaMa

KIM DOTCOM’S EXTRADITION HEARING DELAYED: Prosecutors and lawyers representing Megaupload’s founder have tentatively rescheduled his extradition hearing until March 25, 2013, to give New Zealand police time to appeal a ruling over search warrants, according to Bloomberg. http://bloom.bg/L5EVu2

SOPA/PIPA — ROUND 2?: Media and technology executives will convene today in Sun Valley, Idaho, for an exclusive annual conference where the piracy debate will be the focus for the first time since SOPA and PIPA died in Congress last year, the NYT reports. http://nyti.ms/MdQTSj

D.C. CAB WAR: An Internet startup called Uber that lets folks request taxis via their smartphone is fighting D.C.’s taxi authorities over legislation the company says would require it to charge at least five times the minimum fare, CNET reports. http://cnet.co/Ng4Naq

THE DOOMSDAY FLOP: The threat posed by the so-called doomsday virus has completely fizzled after no significant outages were reported on Monday, USA Today reports. http://usat.ly/PFxekw

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